Improvement in sofa-bedsteads



PATENTED JUNE 20,

J. 0. EMERY SOFA BEDSTEAD.

JNO. G. EMERY, OF CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

I lMPROVEMENT IN SOFA-BEDSTEADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5,6A l1, dated June 26,1-5-18.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J (IN C. EMERY, of Concord, in the countyofMerrimack and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvementin the Sofa-Bedstead; and I do hereby declare that the same isfully represented and described in the following specification andaccompanying drawings, letters, figures, and references thereof.

Of said drawings, Figure 1 exhibits a top view of my improvedsofa-bedstead. Fig. 2 is" a transverse section of the same.

in said figures A denotes the frame of the bedstead, it being composedof two ends, a b,

united together by two parallel bars or rails, c (1.

B is the bottom board, and G the back board. The said back board orframe is bingedto the bottom board by two or any other suitable numberof hinges, e f. The said bottom board is supported by one or moreledges, g It, made upon the ends a I), as seen in Fig. 3, which is alongitudinal section of the bedstead taken through the ends and as itthe spectator were looking toward the front of the article. The backboard, when raised np, is supported in its inclined position by one ortwo pendulous bars, i k, each of which is not oiilyjointed at one end tothe back board or turns in a vertical plane upon a. screw or pininserted therein, but is also similarl gjointed to one of the ends, a orI), so as to turn in a vertical plane upon. a pin or screw. l. Totheunder side of the bottom board, B, one or more stops, n, is atlixed inthe position as seen in the drawings-that. is to say, directly illrearof the connecting bar or rail 0. The said pendulous bars 1' kandstop' or stops it serve to hold' the back board and bottom board intheir proper positions when the back board is elevated or raised up inthe manner exhibited in Fig. 2. By elevating the bottom board, so as toraise the stop or stops at above the rail 0, the said bottom and backboards will be free to fall into the horizontal position denoted in thetransverse section, Fig. 4.

The pendulous bars serve to guide and sup port the back board and caseit downward while it is being lowered into the position seen in thelast-named figure.

The back and bottom boards or frames are to be covered and stuffed inthe usual way.

What I claim as my invention is- One or more pendnlous bars applied tothe end or ends and back board, in combination with one or more stopsvortheirmechanical equivalents applied to the bottom board, the whole beingarranged and operating substantially in the manner and for the purposesas above specified.

In testimony whereof i have hereto set my signature this 26th day ofOctober, A. 1).]517.

J. C. EMERY.

Witnesses:

JOHN P. JOHNSON, Jena 1. Ross.

